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With 17 per cent of its forest already lost, the Amazon is near a tipping point. If that reaches 20 to 25 per cent, scientists say there will be irreversible changes.

Uyunkar Domingo Peas Nampichkai, a leader from the Achuar Nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon, put it simply at a news conference Wednesday: the Amazon is in a “deep crisis.”

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We need to talk about why Russia invaded Ukraine

14/12/22

Author:

Mary Dejevsky

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The Independent

Those who view Russia as an inherently aggressive, imperialist state insist that Russia must be defeated and made to recognise the error of its ways (AP)

Dec. 8, 2022

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Forest protection should be a high priority at COP15

14/12/22

Author:

Rob Miller

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National Observer

We know these ancient forests are worth more standing. We understand the consequences of losing them. There is a sense of urgency for change. We need binding agreements from international negotiations like COP15. Photo via Flickr

Dec. 14, 2022

During Biodiversity Day at COP27, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault committed $855,000 to ensure non-profit environmental groups and Indigenous partners can participate at COP15, the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal. This funding levels the playing field as industries increasingly send their paid representatives to participate in the negotiations.

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Will Sea Lions Slow the Construction of Woodfibre LNG? (Or Will Project Conditions Be Relaxed?)

13/12/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

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The Tyee

Steller sea lions, such as the one pictured here eating a salmon, often frequent the Howe Sound and would interrupt construction of the Woodfibre LNG project unless changes are made to the project conditions, the company says. Photo via Shutterstock.

Dec. 13, 2022

The company says the animals’ ‘ubiquitous presence’ will cause ‘regular and prolonged full project shutdowns.’

Construction on the Woodfibre LNG project in Squamish is set to take off in 2023, but the “curious and gregarious” nature of sea lions could make the construction “neither technically nor economically feasible.”

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A Groundbreaking Indigenous Rights Decision, 25 Years Later

12/12/22

Author:

Amanda Follett Hosgood

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The Tyee

Many of those who fought the historic Deglamuukw-Gisday’wa gathered in the Wet’suwet’en community of Witset on Friday to celebrate. ‘We’ve got to get back to the original vision of our Chiefs and leaders and people who brought us there,’ says Wet’suwet’en Dinize Satsan, Herb George. Photo by Olivia Leigh Nowak.

Dec. 11, 2022

The Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa case had impact around the world. What has it done for the nations who fought it?

It was sometime after midnight on a winter night in 1988 that Simogyet (Chief) Neekt took his farm tractor and dragged a log across the Kispiox Valley Road.

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Sorry, Pierre — Trudeau’s pandemic spending was a success

12/12/22

Author:

Max Fawcett

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National Observer

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to reporters outside Rideau Cottage on March 18, 2020. File photo by Kamara Morozuk

Website editor: Too bad when he cut his beard he also went back to business as usual and austerity for the working classes :(

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‘People are going to experience frostbite, people are going to have more amputations’

12/12/22

Author:

Nazanin Meshkat

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National Observer

Lynn Walker, 63, cleans up around her home in a homeless encampment in Allan Gardens park in Toronto on Dec. 1, 2022. Photo by Ian Willms for Canada's National Observer

Dec. 12, 2022

When unhoused people in Toronto run out of options, they turn to the city’s overcrowded emergency departments for shelter.

The result is a collision of two crises, emergency department overcrowding and homelessness, that will risk lives, physicians, social workers and advocates for unhoused people say.

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Let Her Stay, BC Health Minister Tells Ottawa

09/12/22

Author:

Moira Wyton

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The Tyee

Claudia Zamorano, her husband and daughter face deportation on Dec. 19 after their refugee claim was denied. Photo supplied.

Nov. 11, 2022

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix is calling on Ottawa to stop the impending deportation of a New Westminster health-care worker and her family to Mexico.

Hospital housekeeper Claudia Zamorano, her husband, nine-year-old daughter, and her husband’s mother and brother fled from threats of violence in their home city of Colima in 2017, but their refugee claim has been denied.

Zamorano works full time at Royal Columbian Hospital and her husband, Andres, is a carpenter.

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Education Workers Lead But Come Up Short: What Lessons for Labour?

09/12/22

Author:

Sam Gindin

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The Bullet

"It cannot be emphasized enough that the determining factor in this rebellion was the remarkable education and organizing carried out among education workers through some eight months leading up to the strike. Inspired by the methods of the iconic American organizer Jane McAlevey, the union systematically developed the understandings, capacities, and confidence of its members. Expectations were raised. Weaknesses were identified and progress measured through ‘structure tests’.

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The company says the animals’ ‘ubiquitous presence’ will cause ‘regular and prolonged full project shutdowns.’

The Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa case had impact around the world. What has it done for the nations who fought it?

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